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R. DL RENNIE. ADJUSTABLE SHOWER, APPLICATION FILED Ammo. 1914.

1,1 filfigfi, Patented Nov. 23, 1915.

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ROBERT D. RENNIE, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

ADJUSTABLE SHOWER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 23, 1915.

Application filed April 20, 1914. Serial No. 833,085.-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Roenrrr D. RENNIE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Showers, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention pertains to shower attachments, and has for its object to provide a shower attachment for the use of bath tubs which can be manipulated by-the occupant of the tub to control the angle of discharge.

A further object is to provide improved means for securing said attachments in place.

I accomplish these objects by means of.

the structure shown in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l'is a side elevation of my improved device as applied in use. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of same. Fig. 8 is a longitudinal sectional view of a tail-piece having threads, and on which is carried the usual collar'll. At the upper end of each pipe section 1 is secured a valve 8 of ordinary construction, from which rises a pipe section 3. These pipe sections will be limited in their length so as to bring the shower to a proper height for convenience in use. At the upper end of each sectlon 3 is secured a usual elbow 6 to each of which is attached by means of a swivel connection, a short pipe section 13, and these two are united by means of the T 7 rigidly secured in place between them. From this T rises a short pipe section 9 which has a forward extension l-l to which is secured the shower attachment 10. made in any usual form and adapted to be shifted to any angle with reference to the pivotal point of its support, by means of the handle 15.

Since the metal of the usual pipe section is not of sufiicient thickness to support a considerable weight upon the pipe secured thereln, I have provided a tail-piece 4 having an inwardly extending projection 5 which is internally screw threaded to receive the corresponding screw threaded pore tlon of the section 1. By means of this arrangement a suflicient tap opening is provided in the tail-piece, and it is thereby made possible to mount my improvement upon either old or new structure without alteration or reconstruction. It will be seen that the supply attached is mounted in the supply pipes, intermediate the wall of the bath tub and the spigot, thereby making it possible to use the shower-either independently or simultaneously with the spigot.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, isi .1. A shower device comprising two upright pipes, a shower fixture adjustably connected between the upper ends of said pipes to turn upon an axis transversely thereof and in communication with both of said pipes, and means for connecting the lower ends of said pipes respectively with the hot and cold water sides of the usual combination hot and cold water fixture without in terfering with the regular use of said fixture, said means being inter :hangeable with regular parts of said combination fixture.-

2. In combination with a combination hot.

and cold water fixture having removable connecting parts, a shower apparatus comprising two up-right pipes, means adapted to be interchangeable with the removable parts of said combination fixture, whereby to connect the lower ends 0f said up-right pipes to the hot and cold water sides of said combination fixture without interfering with its regular use, a showerdevice a'djustably mounted between the upper ends of saidup-rightp1pes and adapted to be turned upon a horizontal axis into different positions, and valves independent of thevalves of said combination fixture for regulating the flow of'hot and cold water respectively to said shower fixture, substantially' as shown and described.

Intestimony whereof I affix my signa ture in the presence of two witnesses.

' ROBERT D. RENNIE. Witnesses:

E. EARL Fermi,

'H. A. ABMsrRoNo.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0." 

